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Tags: Non-Fiction
Summary
Enshittification: it's not just you—the internet sucks
now. Here's why, and here's how we can disenshittify it.
We're living through the Enshittocene, the Great
Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us,
that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It's
frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.
Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a
solution.
When Cory Doctorow coined the term
enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way
to say "things are getting worse." He was making a specific
diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is
affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).
The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms
that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at
least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were
locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business
customers happy. Then the platforms turned to...